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I am not turning down "More bandwidth" in of itself. When a single
party controls too much of the network bandwidth they can launch a
sybil attack on the network to effectively deanonymise users. With
several ports such as SMTP still open, it will also be used for spam
and could really damage Tor's reputation.

Along with this, the MyFamily option prevents users from connecting
from a server group which is controlled by the same operator. This is
to prevent scenarios where a user uses a circuit controlled by a
single party (who can therefore deanonymise them by seeing the whole
connection). Without this set and controlling a large % of the
network, it creates a dangerous concoction of elements for users. Only
the relay operator can set the MyFamily option, the DirAuths etc can't
do it for them.

Fortunately their cluster has a very low % of weighting and right now,
I'm not too concern about it until it grows.

- -T

Soul Plane:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Thomas White 
> <thomaswhite@riseup.net> wrote:
> 
>> It is dangerous. I've run a cluster of exits for a long time and
>>  people like myself and Moritz know the dangers of reducing the 
>> diversity pool. Adding even a gigabit of exits to a single AS 
>> right now is dangerous and I've consulted arma on the topic 
>> before who agreed. Beyond 25% of the network is dangerous and 
>> higher than that could cause serious anonymity implications.
>> 
> 
> Why turn down more bandwidth? If all of the exits are being run by 
> the same person or group why not mark them all as family members
> of the same group? I checked a few of them and I don't see that
> they list family members. Unless I misunderstand what family
> members is for?
> 
> https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#MultipleRelays
> 

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